These are high quality scans of some of the
maps
(63 all in all)

Some of them are similar to the ones described in the text and others
are the same

They are big, some of them several megabytes. So be warned. You're
browser might not be able to cope with that, but your picture editing
program might, so it's better to download those and edit them later.
Everything more than 3.17 Mb. doesn't show up in my browser, but does
in my picture editor. I plan to put up more, but that might take time.
Some of these might make a nice wall decoration. If you have a high
quality printer or plotter it will work out fine. Take photo paper,
download the picture, edit it in your photo editor and preview the print
and then print it in the size you want it. Good luck.

The printing process was much different than what it is now. The maps
were first etched on copperplates and printed in black and white. Afterwards
they were sometimes colored by hand. Since this was a laborious job
you could sometimes find in one Atlas several shapes of the same country,
since it was too expensive to renew the plates. Also publishers copied
freely from each other, since there were no copyrights and they had
to rely on what they could get. Therefore the shape is more important
than the numbers of different publishers found!

(This is not a high quality scan, just a picture to show the south on modern
maps)

Handwritten map by Father Andre Kim (Kim Tae Gon, the first Korean Catholic
priest, who was executed because of his religion, but managed to make
this map in the short time he was in Korea, 1846) (876 Kb)

Map based on the previous handwritten map. (377 Kb) This one is in yhhr
Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie (Paris). Volume 9. Series 4 in 1855.

"Asia," issued in 1753, London, by Gibson (his name engraved
at bottom right). A severely truncated Siberia, the misshapen Japan with
a huge erroneous "Land of Jesso". East of this, the speculatively
drawn coast of 'Company's Land' suggests Alaska, but would be completely
misplaced. Korea as Hamel type. (557 Kb)

Copperplate engraving from the National Atlas of Geography published 1843
by Alexander Keith Johnston (1804 - 1871): Map of China with an inset
of Canton (473 Kb)

Moll, Hermann (fl. 1678-1732). A native of Holland, Moll moved to England
sometime before 1682. He set up shop in London as a bookseller and map
engraver. After the turn of the century he became the premier map publisher
in England and soon was an open and effective propagandist for British
claims to North America. Moll's bold cartographic style included much
detail, and he produced a wide range of maps from miniature to very large,
decorated maps with inset plans and illustrations. Much of his work was
copied by other publishers. (559 Kb)